Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Tomas Järmyr - drums and bashes, keyboards
Reine Fiske - guitars, space and whatever else you might think
Spacey's notes:
Oh well, dear fellow spacetravelers, this again is a gift from our beloved ViKINGS. Despite the fact that the tape doesn't sound too good, the music here offered is stellar from start to finish. Ok, backwards, I could go home
a lucky man without their nowadays favourite choice of encore, but what happened before in those 150+ minutes ate my heart and melted my brain? Following a solid start with two newer songs and the norwegian return (?) of the rather short
heavy "Rattlesnake", "Superstooge" (sorry for the misspelling in MP-related dialect) makes a (at least for me) much welcome return. Not as heavy and spaced out since the most recent version, but - hey - just Bent's bass rumbles to start
gives me a real fat smile! Unfortunately my hair is almost cut (no, the age thins it), so no long hair moshing desaster. The sixth track played here is a live premiere recording for me. It's pulled out of the fridge shelved between the
frozen fish and tasty shrooms. Digged out of nothing from their first album, Lobotomizer, released 30 years ago. The album is due to re-release soon, so it might be a trick of the light (or account?) to serve that one here? Nope,
this band has been as uncommercial as a fish that tries to conquer the land. Well, happened once, some billion years ago. The result is us. Nice one, but for me as an old aging Deadhead, "Lady Jay" is a pure Grateful Dead jam. The
feeling's floating, you forget about time and space. Until, you are woken up with the heavyness of a full "Lucid acidic flight" from my favourite MP album (no, sorry, the new one is always the best for some weeks...). "Entropy" is a breather,
nice with its new arrangement, STG rocks great as usual. But taking "Empire's end" into 15+ mins? Yes, all worth listening. To me, another proof to the theory that a threesome is sometimes more interesting if you add a fourth figure
of absolute musical knowledge to the card offered in your favourite norwegian restaurant of sounds. Welcome back, dear Fish.
Ok, fellow psychonauts, I'll leave it up to you what to think of the remaining app. 40 minutes of the show. This is the part of the puzzle and the most gracious way to include it into your longtime memorybase of brain, all is up to you.
Dare I say, I love this show?
"Like so many times before".
Can't wait until May.
Enjoy this as much as you like.
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